Jim West On Chess: Robert Byrne Memorial Blitz at Marshall CC

Friday, September 25, 2015

Robert Byrne Memorial Blitz at Marshall CC

On Friday night, September 25th, the Marshall Chess Club will be honoring the life and legacy of grandmaster Robert Byrne.

Please join us at 6pm for refreshments and remarks about the great American chess player.

At 7pm, there will be a blitz tournament.

"My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, and have never regarded it as anything else, for all the science and sport involved in it. And, moreover, an art which in some ways is closer to music than it is customary to think. Perhaps chess and music are drawn together by laws of harmony and beauty which are difficult to formulate and difficult to grasp, or perhaps by something else." - Vasily Smyslov